Anthony Jacquin wrote:Interesting question. I think the answer, or perhaps an answer, is to make your self aware of such linguistic techniques. This seemed to be what The guy who wrote the book 'Influence' was trying to achieve. I think his name is Robert Cialdini.
The book is aimed at showing you how you are influenced by individuals and business and government. Most people seem to read the book as a manual of how to influence and in my opinion this is where the strength of it is. A good read and I am sure it is something you will enjoy will you not?
Ant
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The point of this post was to show some embedded commands (!?!?!) in the post that Anthony did. So easy to miss, and I know his intention was not to influence anyone, but I figured that by pointing them out you'd be able to go back and see just how easily such embedded commands could be slid right into daily conversation - even conversation about embedded commands themselves.
What I did above was to
Bold the embedded commands as I caught them the very first time I read his post. You tell me if I'm crazy, but they
are there, aren't they, and they could be interpreted as such, right?
As soon as I read Anthony's posting I laughed inside because it just became so clear to me as to what he might have been trying to put across. Maybe it's just me, who knows. I didn't see any smiley for sarcasm or making a joke. That would have robbed the embedded command of it's power by bringing it to conscious attention, just as Roger described in his reply above, and making it subject to our reasoning ability to see it for what it truly is.
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